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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did George Daniel suffer brain damage?
(a) Car accident.
(b) A fall.
(c) Bicycle accident.
(d) An assault.

2. In Chapter 10, what drug did Stevenson say was misused in many mental institutions?
(a) Nardil.
(b) Lithium.
(c) Thorazine.
(d) Pardate.

3. What did Harcourt do before going to law school?
(a) Teaching.
(b) Engineering.
(c) Banking.
(d) Research.

4. Where was Clarence Brantley from?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Texas.
(c) Colorado.
(d) Alabama.

5. In 1999, how many people were executed in the United States?
(a) 98.
(b) 84.
(c) 103.
(d) 71.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Assistant Attoney General Don Valeska in Chapter 9?

2. In Chapter 9, how many doctors testified that Myers told them he was being coerced to say that McMillian killed Morrison?

3. How many children did Walter Garnett have?

4. When did Gulley, McCants, and Sullivan break into a house in Pensacola, Florida?

5. When was a new trial order for the McMillian case in Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was eventually discovered about the doctor who declared George Daniel sane to stand trial for murder?

2. Why was Marsha Colbey charged with capital murder?

3. In Chapter 11, why did Stevenson have to take bomb threats seriously?

4. How did Stevenson's grandfather die?

5. Why was George Stinney executed?

6. How did Marsha Colbey give her kids her heart?

7. In Chapter 11, why was Stevenson optimistic about what evidence in the McMillian case might accomplish in the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals?

8. What law was passed in Alabama in 2006 and what were its ramifications?

9. What was Joe Sullivan indicted for and why?

10. What was Sullivan like in 1989, and what was his home life like?

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